The third day in the wrongful termination public hearing Monday for Robert Duncan, a former teacher in the St. Tammany Parish school system, is being postponed indefinitely due to the threat of Tropical Storm Isaac. When the hearing resumes, Duncan is expected to take the stand in his own defense.

Scott Threlkeld / The Times-PicayuneSt. Tammany Parish School Board attorney Harry Pastuszek holds a copy of a controversial political cartoon done by a then-eighth-grader at Boyet Junior High School in January. The cartoon, which was an assignment by now-fired teacher Robert Duncan, has a likeness of President Barack Obama with a mark on the right temple that some interpreted to look like a bullet hole. The student said the mark was an accident and current teachers say it wasn't there when it originally was hung in a hallway of the school.

After being placed on administrative leave with pay for nearly six months, Duncan, 52, of Bogalusa, was fired Aug. 6 by Superintendent Trey Folse for being dishonest and "making a bad, incompetent" decision in regard the posting of a controversial poster, which was part of a school project to create political cartoons. The poster which has drawn the most attention includes a depiction drawn by a then-eighth-grader of President Barack Obama, with a mark on his right temple that some interpreted as a bullet hole.

The hearing, which is being heard in front of a three-person panel of St. Tammany school system Supervisor of Secondary Instruction Regina Sanford, Slidell Principal William Percy and former Boyet teacher Karen Payne, has no legal bearing. Rather, it simply is a guide to Folse, recommending whether he should reverse, amend or uphold his decision.